"Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well."

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Source : Robert McAfee Brown (1964). “Observer in Rome”

Robert McAfee Brown

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“And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.”
“Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.”
“I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.”
“There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.”
“I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.”
“I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give him an expression of shock, so he poured scalding hot water on my arm during the take. He splashed it on me. He got his expression of shock, but I also got, like, second-degree burns!”

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“The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.”
“William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.”

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